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03-31-2020, 11:23 AM #9801
Heh, the impeachment trial was a prelude showing how President Trump would handle the epidemic: it's a media hoax, a nothingburger, a dem conspiracy.
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03-31-2020, 11:30 AM #9802I touched your avatar
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03-31-2020, 11:42 AM #9803
FYI...in case you have never done it, buying and replacing the electronics in your appliances is not hard and is rather economic...if needed.
As for washers and dryers and manufacturing in the US...I recently bought a set of Whirlpools. They work awesome and I am happy with them. Load and Go is way more convenient then I could of ever thought and having sanitation cycles on both the washer and dryer has come in handy during all this...even if it is all just mental. I have two small children that have been working through potty training and bed wetting. It is nice to be able to hit sanitize and have the washer dispense the detergent based on load weight, etc. Fill it up every couple weeks.
Funny enough, the electronics are the thing I worry most about them...which is the parts probably made over seas (boards, etc.). The buttons are not tactile and you have to press for 3 seconds while it count downs...safety I guess? Sometimes they act out and I have to turn the machine off and back on. Been like that since new though.
We also recently bought a Hot Springs spa. Made in San Diego. Great craftsmanship and quality...been super happy with it. Guess where my Tacoma was made? Also, my Outback?
We can still make things in the US and frankly, I hope all of this gives consumers a new appreciation for American made. Heck, my company makes our stuff in the US, however, we do some assembly work in Mexico. With that said, I would also rather buy something made in Canada or Mexico over something made in China.
We can all sit here and say how terrible Trump is, etc., however he has been more successful then our last couple presidents at negotiating trade agreements and is the first in a long time to stand up to China's trade practices. I think it is the one positive we can say about him."We had nice 3 days in your autonomous mountain realm last weekend." - Tom from Austria (the Rax ski guy)
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03-31-2020, 11:43 AM #9804
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03-31-2020, 11:46 AM #9805
Funny bit.
Don’t get me wrong I’m not a total socialist and have made some money being a capitalist. If we took some of the over indulgent 100’s of millions of dollars of annual personal pay to some of the C collar crew and raised the wages of the people on the lines, manufacturing quality would go up and costs would go down. I am clearly typing on a phone made in China, but a fair bit of my stuff was made here and I think we could do more.
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03-31-2020, 11:49 AM #9806
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03-31-2020, 11:50 AM #9807
You mean to tell me, the stable genius can't multi-task? I thought Trump had ignored the impeachment trial as a dem hoax, witch hunt, and was doing the people's work?
"We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch
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03-31-2020, 11:51 AM #9808
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03-31-2020, 11:51 AM #9809
For those into modeling virus progression. Not my cup of tea but for those into this sort of thing, worth a read.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...ovid-19-model/"We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch
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03-31-2020, 11:55 AM #9810
Saw this today and was not something in my consciousness. Food stamp cards are refilled at the beginning of the month. Folks are likely running on fumes. If you’re not low on food avoid grocery shopping April 1&2 and go April 3
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03-31-2020, 11:57 AM #9811
Generally I agree with you. I appreciate that he has reexamined these and is working to renegotiate them. That said, he also put a 15% hit on my business without what seemed like a ton of thought. Apparel businesses simply don't have an option right now and from what we're hearing, nobody is scrambling to provide on stateside. We just don't have the skilled labor.
"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
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03-31-2020, 12:01 PM #9812
I think we can agree to disagree. There are plenty of your favorite brands sewing right here in the USA to be berry compliant. And while I may be off by a few dollars, that arcteryx is maybe $60-$90 on the high end.
The bottom line is folks offshored their talent, machines and technology for so long the chickens have come home to roost.
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03-31-2020, 12:12 PM #9813"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
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03-31-2020, 12:17 PM #9814
One of the few things I was hopeful would come from a Trump presidency was a return of some of our manufacturing from China. Unfortunately he hasn't had much success on that front. His trade deals include backing out of trans-Pacific, some minor deals with SK and Japan, and NAFTA 2.0, mostly just a name change. Minor improvements in some of these deals, others just to give him the perception of having "won" something. In any case, nothing near what he promised or what would be helpful for our current situation.
Damn shame, throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that
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03-31-2020, 12:18 PM #9815
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03-31-2020, 12:18 PM #9816
I used to know a lot of people that worked at BC.com. This sounds about right based on what they told me margins were on high-end outerwear.
I don't see how the general premise here can be argued against. All so CEO/executive pay could balloon from 30x average worker pay to 300x.
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03-31-2020, 12:19 PM #9817
Well he said the engineers don’t need to worry about making cars pollute less, so that will help out in the short term. /humor
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03-31-2020, 12:22 PM #9818yelgatgab
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Guerilla Gravity is selling made-in-Denver carbon frames for less than pretty much everyone else. Matt's a smart MF, and that's a pretty specific industry, but couldn't other smart MFs find creative ways to bring manufacturing back if they really wanted to? Maybe not, I'm genuinely curious.
Remind me. We'll send him a red cap and a Speedo.
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03-31-2020, 12:25 PM #9819
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03-31-2020, 12:25 PM #9820
Literally just came down my feed.
https://academic.oup.com/clinchem/ar...9/1683/5640134
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03-31-2020, 12:26 PM #9821
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03-31-2020, 12:36 PM #9822
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03-31-2020, 12:38 PM #9823
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03-31-2020, 12:50 PM #9824
Wonder whether this is accurate
“Data suggest faster spreading in the U.S., with the “reproduction number” of the U.S. at 2.44, higher than Italy at 1.48, while the doubling time of cases in the U.S. of about 3.7 days is lower than Italy’s at 10 days, “pointing to a significantly faster elevation of case numbers in the U.S. than Italy.”"
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/5-...of2&yptr=yahoo
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03-31-2020, 12:56 PM #9825
If you saw the 2011 movie “Contagion,” about a worldwide pandemic of a new virus, then you’ve heard the term “R0.”
Pronounced “R naught,” this isn’t just jargon made up in Hollywood. It represents an important concept in epidemiology and is a crucial part of public health planning during an outbreak, like the current coronavirus pandemic that’s spread globally since it was first identified in China.
Scientists use R0 – the reproduction number – to describe the intensity of an infectious disease outbreak. R0 estimates have been an important part of characterizing pandemics or large publicized outbreaks, including the 2003 SARS pandemic, the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic and the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa. It’s something epidemiologists are racing to nail down about SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. ...
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